Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

Nice they’ve made the effort to make me feel welcome here...

 

Apropos of a chat with DaveCG last night, may I recommend a book I finished recently (for the fourth time). It's "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis. It's a wonderfully readable explanation of why the global financial crash happened a decade ago, told from the perspective of the handful of people who saw it coming (and who made money from it). The film's good. The book's outstanding.

Vin

 

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My friend asked me if I wanted to hear a really good Batman impression, so I said go on then. He shouted, “NOT THE KRYPTONITE!” and I said, “That’s Superman…”


“Thanks man,” he said. “I’ve been practising it a lot.”

 

My favourite teacher at school was Mrs. Turtle.


Strange name but she tortoise well.

 

Did you know there’s no canaries on the Canary Islands?


Same with the Virgin Islands. There are no canaries there either.

 

A very good chat too, with only a little of it about the agonies of being a Saints supporter

Thanks for the heads up re the book, Vin, and thanks for a great evening. As per Mrs Vin’s recommendation, we had the salt & pepper king prawns (we went to the Water Garden in North Baddesley) and they were amazing. Can thoroughly recommend both the venue and the company. Cheers, Vin!

 

I love that movie. Well, not the world crash, but you know what I mean.

 

I have an oven door that squeaks.... watch out kids!

 

A level results day. Good luck to all involved

Just heading to school now.

Edit: B, C, C

he’s got what he needs and off to start his degree apprenticeship at Lockheed Martin

Happy Mum
Proud Dad

 

Just had breakfast and here is my view this morning.......

 

Well done, Fats junior! And brilliant parenting, I’m sure ......

Reminds me of a very teary moment of my own, when my “little girl” got hers back in 97 (blimey that makes me feel old). She wouldn’t let me go with her to see the results at the school, so I sat in the car chewing my fingernails. She came back looking glum and said “Dad. Will you be upset with me?” Of course, I said “no! Whatever the results”
She said “I only got a B in history”
“Fantastic”, I said. “And the others?” (Fearing the worst)
“Oh, I got A’s in the other two” .......
I still tear up thinking about it now ....

 

Brilliant! Congratulations to Fats Jr, and good luck with his career. Sounds like a really good choice!

 

Congrats to him! Glad to see that he takes after his mother

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49319760

Fascinating. Never knew about this.

 

Thanks for that, it looks incredibly useful. Interesting that Mongolia have adopted it as their postcode system!

The centre spot at St. Mary’s is latest.body.energy, which seems somehow appropriate.

 

FLT;

Did they get the W - 9 system for GCSE, then A B C... for A levels.

Seems strange to change one, but no the other?

 

Did a health and safety course at work yesterday and they told us about this. Useful system if it became a thing that everyone knows about.

 

It reminds me of the genius that was videoplus codes back in the late 90s